Whenever an individual or a company garners fame and fortune, there's often intense interest in their processes and behaviors. The thinking is that there's some sort of secret sauce or hidden wisdom in how they operate, so you , dear reader, can follow in their steps perhaps you can share in some...
There's a genre of "don't I sound smart" type of personal improvement insight that draws from the same well as the old joke, "In Soviet Russia, television watches you!" which looks something like, Control your schedule; don't let your schedule control you. I'm...
With this year's iOS17 and iPhone 15, the improvements aren't exactly life-changing: a Standby mode that adds a bunch of dim widgets when the phone is statically charging; more customization options for widgets overall across the lock screens, notification areas, and even on macOS; assorted additional settings for end users; grab...
I heard about the sci-fi novel Exadelic from this TechCrunch book review. Going through the first dozen chapters, I wasn't sure there was much more to add than what the reviewer identified right in the title of the book: it's Ready Player One , Silicon Valley edition, where the divisive insider references...
I recently attended a conference for engineering leaders based in San Francisco. It was a 2-day affair, and along with the usual talks and networking, the organizers smartly set up their venue for roundtables, 1:1s, and other peer-to-peer conversations that served as a direct contrast to the virtual Zoom conferences these past few years....
This tweet from Paul Graham a while back gave me the perfect excuse to write about one of my favorite topics, the idea of thinking by writing: Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for them with almost indecent haste. Most people hate to write as much as they hate...
